In_other_words , the anti-trust laws , designed to reduce prices to the consumer on Monday , Wednesday and Friday , become a tool to protect the marginal manufacturer on Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday .

(The Detroit News,...)

Perhaps the moralities of world law are not advanced by stealing American diplomatic papers and planes , but the Kennedy administration can always file a demurrer to the effect that , but for its own incompetence in protecting American interests , these things would not happen .

(The Miami Herald,...)

In_this instance , happily , insistence is being made that our share is protected .

What it is trying to do is to protect the little man , too , as_well as trying to maintain a flow of fresh meat to all stores , with choice of cut being made by the consumer , not the store .

(Newark Evening News...)

Does this man live in a neighborhood where all are free loaders unwilling to help themselves , but ready_to demand that `` the community '' help and protect them ?

[ verb ] (work) use tariffs to favor domestic industry, in international trade

Used in print

(Ann Ritner, Seize a Nettle....)

That kind_of poverty was regarded_as the exclusive property of the East , which created depressions with their stock_markets and their congested populations and their greedy centralization of industries , protected by discriminatory freight_rates .